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Mr. Standt was married in 1901 to
Miss Anna K. Standt and they have one child, John N. Standt,
Jr.

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John L.
Roseberry

John L. Roseberry, residing on
section 25, township 28, range 35, Cherry county, was born in
Green county, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1866. His father was a
farmer and a veteran of the Civil war, who died in 1865 from the
effects of his service during his career as a soldier. The
mother's maiden name was Julia A. Stewart, and both parents were
American-born, descendants of old American stock.

Mr. Roseberry was reared in
Pennsylvania on a farm, living at home until he was twenty-one
years of age, then started for himself, coming west and locating
in Clay county, Nebraska, where he spent two years farming. He
then came to the western part of the state and took a tree claim
on Dismal river, returned to Pennsylvania and spent a year, then
back to Nebraska, this time settling in Cherry county, taking a
homestead here in 1890, which he has occupied ever since. He was
the first white settler to begin improving land in the Dismal
country and put up some of the first buildings, making the first
fence in the locality. His buildings were all of sod, and his
teams were oxen, which did all his farm work for a number of
years. He got together quite a herd of cattle and other stock, and
during the severe storms which swept the country in 1892 lost one
hundred and forty-five head of stock, and for a few years went
through very hard times, losing crops, stock, etc. He used his old
tree claim as a summer pasture for his cattle, farming a small
portion of his homestead, and about 1895 sold the former and
afterwards leased land and ran stock for others, forging ahead
slowly and bettering himself as he was able. He gradually added
land to his original claim and is now possessor of three thousand
three hundred and sixty acres of deeded land, besides leasing four
sections all of which is used for a stock ranch, having plenty of
pasture and hay land.

Mr. Roseberry has a fine ranch
house 36x40 feet, two stories, and water piped throughout the
residence, a good barn, workshop and other buildings, wells, wind
mills, three flowing wells, and has built sixty miles of fence. He
also has a fine fruit orchard, has seven hundred apple trees
bearing the finest fruit, also plums, cherries and small fruits.
He has eighty acres of alfalfa, and cultivates one hundred acres,
raising small grain of all kinds. Mr. Roseberry has done
considerable experimenting with grasses and different grains, in
order to ascertain which is the best adapted to the soil and
climate, and the past year has tried raising Mexican peas, and
shipped a crop of five hundred pounds. He has also given much time
to the patenting of a hay stacker, which proved to be a success,
and on which he took out a patent on February 21, 1905, called the
Roseberry Stacker, which is in quite common use in the western
states, claimed to be one of the best on the market, and has made
a nice income for the inventor. Mr. Roseberry deals heavily in
cattle and horses, running annually from twelve hundred to fifteen
hundred of the former, and at present has eighty horses. His ranch
is one of the best equipped and finest in the west, he devotes his
entire attention to its management, and deserves the success which
has come to him.

Mr. Roseberry was married in 1893
to Miss Oscee G. Garrett, daughter of James H. and Alice (Hamm)
Garrett, well known in Nebraska as one of the pioneer families
here. They have the following children: Ira L., Ray, Paul T.,
Alice, Mabel, Oscar, Irena and a baby, Garrett. Our subject has
always taken an active part in local affairs, serving as justice
of the peace at different times, and was county commissioner for
one term. He is president of the Hooker and Cherry County
Telephone Company, organizer of that company and was active in
getting the line established through the section.

The office of sheriff of
Kimball county has been bestowed upon this gentleman, and he is
discharging the duties of the position with rare ability and
increasing popularity. He was elected in 1907, and prior to that
time had served as deputy sheriff for four years, in that time
becoming thoroughly familiar with the work, and he is deservedly
honored and esteemed by his fellow-men.

Mr. Forsling was born near the
city of Gothenberg, Sweden on July 19, 1873. His father was a
native of that country and followed farming as an occupation, also
was for eighteen or twenty years a government officer, being well
and prominently known in this part

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of the country. He was a very wealthy man, owner of two
extensive estates, and a very influential citizen. In 1883 he came
to America with his family, locating in Kimball county, Nebraska,
in 1885. He took a homestead and built up a comfortable home and
became one of the prominent residents of that locality, known all
over the section as one of the very old-timers and successful
stockmen in that part of the state. A sketch of Mr. Forsling
appears in this volume on another page.

Our subject left home and started
for himself at the age of thirteen years, beginning as a cowboy
and at a very tender age rode the range all over the western part
of Nebraska and the adjoining states, "punching" cows during the
summer months and hunting and trapping through the winters. A
considerable portion of his time was spent in Wyoming, Dakota,
Montana and Colorado, and he roughed it during summer and winter,
camping out on the ground wherever he happened to stop in his
travels. He finally settled permanently in Kimball county, and is
now living in the town of Kimball, where he has a good home and is
one of the leading citizens.

On November 25, 1900, Mr.
Forsling was married to Miss Ethel Whitman, who is a daughter of
F. M. Whitman, proprietor of the leading hotel in Kimball. Mrs.
Forsling is a very charming and estimable lady, and their home is
one of the most hospitable in town.

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EARL R. BATTY,
D. D. S.

The gentleman above named
is among the rising professional men of Alma, Nebraska. He has
gained an enviable reputation in his line during the comparatively
short space of time in which he has practiced, and is regarded as
a man of sterling qualities, well qualified for the work he has
undertaken, and has the support of a large patronage.

Dr. Batty is a native of
Illinois, and is of English descent. He is a son of E. H. Batty,
who settled in Alma in 1887, who was engaged in the real estate,
and later the flour, feed and grocery trade, and now resides at
Hastings. He invested largely in farming land, which he sold at a
good round figure, and now owns considerable business house
property in different towns in this section. He was for a time
owner and publisher of the Alma Record, which was the
Republican organ of the county, and still owns this paper, but
leases it to other parties. He came to Nebraska from Jo Daviess
county, Illinois, in 1886, with his family, locating in Alma,
where our subject was reared, graduating from the Alma high school
in 1896. After finishing high school he worked under Dr. Hill of
this place and later studied dentistry at the Kansas City Dental
School, and graduated from that institution with the class of
1901. He at once established an office at Alma, and is the oldest
dentist in length of time practicing in Alma at the present time.
His clientage (sic) extends all over Harlan and the adjoining
counties, and has made an immense success in his profession. One
brother, Dr. A. J. Batty, is in the same profession, with office
at Wilcox, Nebraska.

Dr. Batty was married in 1905 to
Miss Anna Stewart, daughter of C. W. Stewart, a merchant of
Alma.

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EVERETT M.
ELDRED

Among the old-timers in
western Nebraska who have watched the development and growth of
this part of the country from the time of the organization of the
counties, and who has been an important factor in the upbuilding
of this section, the gentleman above named holds a prominent
place. He resides on section 9, township 21, range 34, Deuel
county, where he has a fine ranch and valuable estate.

Mr. Eldred was born in Jones
county, Iowa, in 1864, and raised in that locality. He is a son of
E. J. Eldred, a native of New York state, who was among the first
settlers in Jones county, where he settled on a farm. Our subject
is the second member of a family of four children, all boys. At
the age of sixteen years he left the home of his uncle with whom
he was then living and came to Saline county, Nebraska, where he
followed farming, working out on ranches in that vicinity, and
afterwards was engaged in the livery business for some years. He
remained there up to 1888, when he moved to Deuel county, taking a
homestead, which is the farm he now occupies. When he struck here
he had very little capital, but he went to work building a set of
sod buildings and began to start his farm. His brother Edgar came
with him, and they had brought about one hundred and fifty cattle,
and from that start gradually worked into the stock business, and
have been engaged in this ever since. He batched it on his claim
for ten years, constantly adding to his land, until he now owns a
ranch of six thousand acres, on which he runs three thousand head
of cattle and about two hundred horses. A large number of the
horses are used in handling the cattle, as he requires five
men